Bhagavad Gita 18.60
स्वभावजेन कौन्तेय निबद्धः स्वेन कर्मणा । कर्तुं नेच्छसि यन्मोहात्करिष्यस्यवशोऽपि तत् ॥
svabhāva-jena kaunteya nibaddhaḥ svena karmaṇā / kartuṃ necchasi yan mohāt kariṣyasy avaśo 'pi tat
Translation
Bound by your own action arising from your own nature, Kaunteya, what you do not wish to do from delusion, you will do helpless against your will.
Reflection
What action are you postponing that your own constitution is going to compel sooner or later?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Eighteen
The teacher is sharper here than almost anywhere else. Svabhava-jena nibaddha, bound by what is born of your own nature. What you refuse to do from moha, you will do anyway, avasho api, helpless against your own will. This is one of the Gita's most uncompromising statements about the limits of the ego's veto power. Refusal driven by delusion does not stop action. It only ensures the action will happen ungoverned. The choice in front of Arjuna is not act or not act. It is act consciously or act unconsciously. The verse closes the door on the renunciation-as-escape that Arjuna keeps reaching for.